Click here to view Saturday night's Individual Events postings
Some of these are semifinals, and some are going directly to finals. The first group of these rounds begins at 8 A.M. Sunday. Don't miss your round! Check the schedule online for round times.

Click here to view Saturday night's Quarterfinal Debate postings
Debate quarterfinal rounds begin at 9:30 a.m. Sunday.

 

FINAL ROUND PARLI DEBATE TOPIC
The United States federal government should pass S. 1615: Dream Act 2017
ANNOUNCED AT 3:35 PM, DEBATE AT 3:55 PM (forfeit time 4:05 PM)... DO NOT BE LATE!!!

 

 

 

Lincoln Douglas students advancing to Octafinal round

 

 

 

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ACCESSING PACIFIC_NET GUEST:

1.   CONNECT TO PACIFIC_NET GUEST WIFI

2.   A SPLASH PAGE SHOULD OPEN FOR YOU TO ENTER INFORMATION

a.   IF A SPLASH DOES NOT OPEN, OPEN YOUR WEB BROWSER AND GO TO PACIFIC.EDU

b.  IF A SPLASH PAGE STILL DOES NOT OPEN FOR YOU, THEN PLEASE RESTART YOUR LAPTOP

c.   IF YOU ARE STILL NOT ABLE TO ACCESS, PLEASE LET US KNOW AND WE WILL DIRECT YOU OIT.

d.  IF YOU ARE ONLY USING A PHONE OR OTHER DEVICE, REGISTRATION CAN BE DIFFERENT AND THUS WE MAY STILL NEED TO SEND YOU TO OIT

3.   IN THE SPLASH PAGE, THE USERNAME IS-

a.   USERNAME: pacific

b.  PASSWORD: Tiger1

4.   ENTER YOUR INFORMATION THAT THIS WILL CONNECT YOU TO AND THEN USE THE NEW USERNAME AND PASSWORD PROVIDED TO YOU TO STAY CONNECTED

 

REGISTRATION OPEN (AGAIN) SEPTEMBER 8! Please direct questions about the tournament to the tournament director. Please direct questions about using SpeechWire to support@speechwire.com and assistance will be provided when possible.

 

The University of the Pacific Speech and Debate team cordially invites your team to attend the 35th annual Jon Schamber High School Forensics Tournament on Friday, October 27 through Sunday, October 29, 2017. The tournament will feature the following events:

Debate

• CX Debate
• Lincoln Douglas Debate
• Public Forum debate (TOC QUALIFIER FOR SEMI*-FINAL ROUND PARTICIPANTS!)
• Parliamentary Debate
• Radio Broadcasting

Individual Events

Pattern A                                                                                                           

• Expository
• Dramatic Interp,
• Impromptu
• Thematic Interpretation
• OPP

Pattern B

• Oratory
• Humorous Interp
• Extemp (Combined National & International Topics)
• Duo Interpretation
• Oral Interpretation

We also offer Triathlon, which allows schools to triple enter up to six students in Individual Events.

 

Awards: Awards will be presented to all elimination round competitors. Speaker awards will be presented to the top three debaters in all divisions as well as the top three speakers in both divisions of Triathlon. The top two high schools with eleven or more contestants entered and the top two high schools with ten or fewer contestants entered will be honored with sweepstakes awards. In addition, the traveling sweepstakes trophy will be presented to the school that has accumulated the highest number of sweepstakes points over the years that the tournament has been offered on our campus. Additionally, Pacific Forensics Scholarships of at least $5,000 will be awarded to the top competitor(s) in Parliamentary Debate, CX Debate, Triathlon, and Lincoln-Douglas debate. Tournament Administration is same place: Grace Covell. The members of Pacific Speech and Debate are looking forward to seeing your squad in October. We hope to see you here!

 

Prof. Steven Kalani Farias

Director of Forensics

University of the Pacific

sfarias@pacific.edu

(209) 946-3050//(209) 628-6331

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